The Tennessee Hospital Association (THA), in collaboration with the Tennessee Center for Patient Safety, recently recognized several Baptist Memorial hospitals for their achievements in infection prevention in 2025 with the Zero Harm Awards. Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County and Baptist Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital in Germantown were two of only 16 hospitals in the state to be recognized for zero hospital-wide infections in all categories.
This award celebrates hospitals and clinical departments that have reached zero health care-associated infections in categories that include central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) over the past calendar year.
THA honored Baptist Carroll County and Baptist Rehab Germantown for not having any CAUTI, CLABSI, CDI or MRSA infections in 2025. THA also recognized Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville, Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton and Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City with 2025 Zero Harm Awards.
Eligible participants include acute care, long-term acute care, rehabilitation and pediatric hospitals that report data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) and have voluntarily granted data rights to THA.
To ensure accuracy, the Tennessee Department of Health partnered with THA to validate the data. Award criteria require hospitals to submit 12 months of data to NHSN for the award year and have a minimum of 50 line days for CAUTI and CLABSI either hospital-wide or at the unit level and 50 patient days for CDI and MRSA hospital-wide.
